Endoscopy Nurse Full Time Day Shift
Company: San Juan Regional Medical Center
Location: Aztec
Posted on: April 28, 2025
Job Description:
Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional
Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider-we're a
values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional
care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life
better here for our community.The Endoscopy Nurse will follow the
guidelines imposed by the New Mexico State Practice Act while
providing care to a patient. The Endoscopy nurse will provide
services to the physician while performing Endoscopy procedures.
The Endoscopy nurse will facilitate and guide the growth of the
patient. The patient and the Endoscopy team will benefit from the
nurses anticipation and knowledge of procedures performed in the GI
Lab in the way of a safe and efficient environment. The Endoscopy
nurse will be composed of skills that require kindness,
benevolence, expertise, and proficiency for competent
implementation in patient care. The Endoscopy nurse requires
systematized knowledge derived from observation, critical thinking,
and study to defeat illness. Through science and art of nursing
care, the Endoscopy nurse will provide personal reverence to the
patient, family, and health care team involved in each individual
situation.Required Behaviors:
- As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and
work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are
our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust,
Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability
and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some
list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and
what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our
mission.Required Qualifications:
- NM State Nursing Licensing
- BLS CertificationPreferred Qualifications:
- CGRN
- ACLS Certification - within six (6) months of
hire/transferDuties and Responsibilities:
- The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for pre procedural
arrangements with Nursing floors and the outpatients in regard to
scheduled procedure time, transportation, and instructions
- Maintains continuity of patient care through communication with
other healthcare team members involved in the care of the
patient
- The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for receiving patients and
admitting, periodic, and discharge vital signs per department
policy
- The nurse will utilizes assessment skills to help plan an
approach of individualized care to each patient and provide safe
patient care during pre, intra, and post procedure
- The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for IV access prior to the
procedure; all prerequisite medical intervention (i.e. fluid,
antibiotic, blood products, medications etc.) will be administered
according to nursing protocol policy and physician's orders
- The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for teaching pre-procedure
and discharge instructions
- The nurse will communicate an attitude of concern to the
patient and family through active listening, responding to the
needs communicated and giving feedback
- The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for assisting in
Endoscopy/Bronchoscopy set up of equipment, assisting with the
procedure, and clean-up of equipment
- Specimen handling according to proper laboratory procedures
i.e. pathology, histology, cytology, microbiology solutions and
proper handling
- The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for proper and accurate
documentation stated by department policy of care given and is
responsible for patient records and procedure charges
- The Endoscopy nurse is responsible for adhering to department
policy concerning infection control and maintains aseptic
laboratory skills
- The Endoscopy nurse is responsible respecting culture
diversity, employing interpreters when needed, note and accommodate
hearing and visual impaired patients
- The nurse will included family and significant others in
patient care, planning education, use age appropriate teaching when
needed, advocate patient rights as needed, understand age-related
physiological difference and can implement age-appropriate
therapeutic in interventions, interact professional with co-workers
and promote interdepartmental teamwork
- Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC's Service
Standards into their daily work: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and -Stewardship
- Other duties as assignedPhysical Demands and Environmental Work
Conditions:
- Recognize that potential exposure to blood borne pathogens
and/or hazardous materials, x-ray, noxious/irritating fumes, long
hours, and unforeseen conditions that might generate stress may be
encountered
- Must be able to see with corrective eyewear and hear clearly
with assistance
- Must be able to walk, stand, squat, climb, kneel, and twist
frequently
- Must be able to lift greater than 50 pounds and push 0-300
pounds frequently
- Recognize that physical demands such as extensive walking,
standing, lifting, positioning, pushing, and or transferring of
patients may be required
- Responsible for on-call duties as assigned by GI Lab
Manager
Keywords: San Juan Regional Medical Center, Farmington , Endoscopy Nurse Full Time Day Shift, Healthcare , Aztec, New Mexico
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